Enthusiasm Quotes - Page 26

• Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well.

  William Osler

  Past, Preparation, Each Day

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• Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Passion, Successful, Achievement

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• George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each other. That's what I call good speech-making. The only enthusiasm any of our speakers can rouse is a demand to kill the speaker.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, War, Long

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• Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Promise, Religion, Poverty

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• It takes courage to care for others, because people who care run the risk of being hurt. It's not easy to let your guard down, open your heart, react with sympathy or compassion or indignation or enthusiasm when usually it's much easier-and sometimes much safer-not to get involved. People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Running, Hurt, Heart

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• Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Fun, Hard Times, Dull

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “The Power of Positive Living”, p.163, Open Road Media

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• I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.

  Ian Mckellen

  Drama, Broadway, Audience

  Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 9, 2013.

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• Aioli intoxicates gently, fills the body with warmth, and the soul with
  enthusiasm. In its essence it concentrates the strength, the gaiety of
  Provence: sunshine.

  Frederic Mistral

  Sunshine, Essence, Soul

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• Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting.

  Carol Emshwiller

  Snakes, Elephants, Grace

  Carol Emshwiller (2004). “Carmen Dog”, p.158, Small Beer Press

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• In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Disappointment, Long, Might

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Divorce, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures ...”, p.263

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• Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Doe, Speak

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us....How glorious a conversion, so complete and wholesome it is, scarce memory enough of old bondage days left as a standpoint to view it from! In this newness of life we seem to have been so always

  John Muir

  Memories, Views, Cells

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.8, Great West Books

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• It's always harder to maintain raw enthusiasm or joy than to go into a really dark place.

  Carey Mulligan

  Dark, Joy, Harder

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I believe that true success in bodybuilding nutrition comes from some variety in diet. It allows for more creativity, enables a bodybuilder to enjoy diversity, and causes less stress emotionally and mentally compared to a very basic diet for which a bodybuilder will lose enthusiasm for over time.

  Robert Cheeke

  Stress, Believe, Creativity

  Robert Cheeke (2011). “Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness”, p.66, Book Publishing Company

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• Put life into living, and do it with enthusiasm!

  Vinnie Tortorich

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• Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart; his heart is where his enthusiasm is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is. Treat employees as volunteers just as you treat customers as volunteers, because that's what they are. They volunteer the best parts - their hearts and minds.

  Stephen Covey

  Heart, Creativity, Hands

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Errors, Quality, Bishops

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Queen Victoria, November 4, 1868.

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• No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.

  Aldo Leopold

  Ties, Stronger, Groups

  Aldo Leopold, J. Baird Callicott, Eric T. Freyfogle (2001). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.189, Island Press

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• If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.

  Denis Diderot

  Justice, Phrases, Dedicated

  Denis Diderot (1963). “Diderot, interpreter of nature: selected writings”

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• Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the consciousness that her fellow-creatures have indeed been the better for her day, and the powerless sorrow of her enthusiasm will transform itself into a majesty of radiant and beneficent peace.

  John Ruskin

  Girl, Night, Giving

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 122, 1895.

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• There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly speaking the function of universities and churches alike is to trim and tame enthusiasm, to suppress curiosity, and, in short, to whittle immortal souls into serviceable props of the established order.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Order, Imagination, Soul

  Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The Progress of a Biographer”

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• A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

  George Henry Lewes

  Men, Belief, Prophet

  "The Principles of Success in Literature". The Fortnightly Review, Volume 1, www.gutenberg.org. 1865.

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• As long as I can do something that I am passionate about and that I can really enjoy and the audience can enjoy. That is where my enthusiasm comes from.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Long, Passionate, Enjoy

  "Dwayne Johnson Talks Race to Witch Mountain". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. August 4, 2009.

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• I think the popular concept of the artist is a person who has this great passion and enthusiasm and super emotion. He just throws himself into this great masterpiece and collapses from exhaustion when it's finished. It's really not that way at all.

  Richard Estes

  Passion, Artist, Thinking

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